Spawn
Rebecca Jensen
28 Apr–15 May 2021
Spawn forms part of Rebecca's ongoing research into dance as an equally practical and speculative force. Working with fiction to move beyond the stalemates of the present - creating small openings to the new, unnamable and undefinable.
What if the body is actually getting bio-hacked when it's in movement? Through enacting gestures from different sense realms could we unlock portals to time travel? Could dance be the conduit in the search of a materiality for feeling and thinking the non-human and other forms unknowable to human sensing?
This video work will be accompanied by live performance at times throughout the exhibition period.
Collaborators
Dancers: Rebecca Jensen, Lilian Steiner, Luigi Vescio
Videography: Zoe Scoglio
Editing: Rebecca Jensen
Sound: Roslyn Helper
Floor artwork: Rafaella McDonald
Performances
Saturday 1 May 12-6pm
Saturday 15 May 12-6pm
Spawn forms part of Rebecca's ongoing research into dance as an equally practical and speculative force. Working with fiction to move beyond the stalemates of the present - creating small openings to the new, unnamable and undefinable.
This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.
Rebecca Jensen is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Her practice is centred on the body and rooted in choreography, but shape-shifts into many forms. Interstate and internationally, Rebecca has presented projects in theatres, galleries, on screens and in public spaces. Rebecca has a long-standing relationship, dancing with choreographer Jo Lloyd. Notable works include Deep Sea Dances, Dance Massive 2017 and Explorer Kier Choreographic Award 2016. Works in collaboration with Sarah Aiken include, What Am I Supposed To Do? (WAISTD) Art Centre Melbourne 2019, OVERWORLD 2014, Underworld 2017 and Deep Soulful Sweats (ongoing) Rebecca was a recipient of danceWEB scholarship 2015, Artist in residence at Temperance Hall 2018, Australia Councils international residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
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